It’s nice to see some organic sauces coming out on the market. I just wish the damn ingredients weren’t SO expensive! Otherwise I would be making 100% organic sauces as well.

Well, that’s an interesting label. Where’s the organic certification stamp? If the product isn’t certified organic, how does the word “organic” get to be on the primary panel?

Interestingly enough, here in Canada, because our kitchen isn’t certified by an organic certification board, it is against the law to use the word “organic” on the primary label even if 100% of my ingredients are organic.

If you don’t mind, Sporto, could you look at the label please and tell me if there is a certification stamp?

If not… someone want to point me to where the “organic” rules are that say that US labels don’t need to be certified. If this is true, I have a bunch of labels that are eligible to be labeled 100% organic.

T

Tina Brooks on 10/17/2007 at 6:38 pm said:

Well, that’s an interesting label. Where’s the organic certification stamp? If the product isn’t certified organic, how does the word “organic” get to be on the primary panel?

Interestingly enough, here in Canada, because our kitchen isn’t certified by an organic certification board, it is against the law to use the word “organic” on the primary label even if 100% of my ingredients are organic.

If you don’t mind, Sporto, could you look at the label please and tell me if there is a certification stamp?

If not… someone want to point me to where the “organic” rules are that say that US labels don’t need to be certified. If this is true, I have a bunch of labels that are eligible to be labeled 100% organic.

T

On the back of the bottle it has an Organic certifiers mark, as well as the green USDA organic stamp…so it is actually organic

Lars on 10/16/2007 at 9:30 am said:

It’s nice to see some organic sauces coming out on the market. I just wish the damn ingredients weren’t SO expensive! Otherwise I would be making 100% organic sauces as well.

The funny thing is that from the literature I’ve read on organic farming, there is not much of a cost difference, only more time and effort actually farming. It is only expensive b/c there is a demand for the product and they can get away with selling it at a higher price. Then again, I am not an actual farmer…..

I just bought a whack of organic peppers yesterday, Sporto… No cost difference, in fact, they were cheaper than the non-organic ones sell for. These ones though are cheaper than the organic imports I buy when the local ones are out of season… Which is most of the time.

Back to the certification question. If Arizona Pepper reads this, I hope they’ll comment… I’m curious why they don’t put the organic stamp on the primary panel, If I were certified, I’d have my stamp up front and center like we do our Fair Trade stamps… Also… I went on the website and although it says “organic” it doesn’t have the stamp there either… You guys may be missing out on sales because those of us who buy organic are clicking away because the stamp isn’t there… just a thought.

T